Coal-hod



, To all whom `it 'may concern:

UNITED STATES PATENT i i JOHN H. rococx, or CHICAGO, innmois.`

{COAL-Hon.

speeifleetien forming pere ef Lettere retent No. 59,925, dated Nevembereo, 1866. l l l Be it known that I, JOHN E. reeeeigef the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois,

have invented a certain new and useful Inn-yI provement on4 Coal Hods or Scuttles; and I` do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and marks therein. p

The drawings, which form part of thisspecication, represent a hod or scuttle constructed under my invention, Figure l thereof being a .Y

top view of the scuttle, or a view had by looking down upon it; and Fig. 2, a view by longitudinal section.

In both of these figures like marks and let ters are used to indicate like parts.

This scuttle differs from those now in general use, first, in the formation of the` lips a, which are so constructed that the coal cannot in any case get out of the scuttle when feeding the stove except through the spout, the lips being so formed 'that when the coal is passing out and the scuttle being emptied, the spout will form, in A'connection with the feeding hole or door of the stove, a perfect chute or channel. The lips extend back to the center of the hod, thus afording greater capacity than any other hod now in use; and the sides and lips being of one piece of metal. gives an advantage in the manufacture of the hod, and

savesboth time and money.

This scuttle differs, secondly, from others in general use in the construction of the bottom, which, asis fully shown by Fig. 2 ofthe drawings, is made of two pieces, b and c, the one piece, b, Abeing of concave shape and' swaged into form, with a flange for its attachment to the body of the scuttle, and the other piece, c, being also concave and swaged into form, with a flange that becomes the bottom bearingsurface of the scuttle.

i connected by rivets; butxthey maylbecon ability to resist weight or pressure.` .l

las herein recited, with the side pieces of `1 nected, as may also the piece b,to `the scu tles body by any other means commonly `used for attaching plates of metal to each other.;`

The bottom, being stampedor swaged,`and`. p of two thicknesses of .metalfand `concave,-is .p superior to scuttles of one thickness of `metal for the bottom, and of other forms having less i This scuttle is much strongerfthe expense of manufacture not increased, and,"the bottoml hoop and outside bottom piecebeing stampe or swaged out of one piece of gmetal, less Im`a"` terial is used than in the usual wayl of `cuttingout the pieces separatelyand making `upfthe;` bottom from the` several pieces. f 1 y When finished andpaintedyor coatdwit the material or mixture` commonlyused lifor covering or painting scuttles, this hod or sent-l` p tle will be water-tight, so` that if thecoal is .g wet leakage-will not occur.

2 I do not claim forming the bfzonefi" 1.

piece of met-al cut out andswaged intoform 5 but *I "f What I do claim as my invention, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent',as an im-4 provelnent on coal hods or scuttles,` is` i w 1. The bottom madeiup of the pieces `b and c, the pieces having the flanges for connection.. to the body of the scuttle, and for forming the hoop or bottom bearing-surface Ias `appatrtz ,off` i f them, and constructed substantially `as herein setforth. i .f

2. The lips a, when constructed and formed scuttl'e, as described. w p 11 This specication signed this 25thday Oft September, 1865. i.

' q JONHPOCOGK. Witnesses: i l

DANIEL GOODWIN, Jr., y' WM. H. FrsxE. i y i 

